https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154798
Bug ID: 154798
Summary: The "country" attributes are invalid
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.1.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
ODF defines a pair of attributes:
20.256 style:country-asian
20.257 style:country-complex
(I couldn't find style:country-latin)
which supposedly "specifies the country of a text." Yes, both of them.
This is problematic for three reasons:
1. Text doesn't have a country. Countries may be relevant if you want to
specify local variants of languages; or locales (although those go more by
state than by country if we want to nitpick). But text does not directly have a
country.
2. Country is not a sub-feature of the "language group". Even if it is somehow
legitimate to specify the "country" of a piece of text, then it's
country-period, not a triplet of countries for 3 language groups. Not to
mention how the same country can have large groups of people using multiple
scripts, in each of the three groups (e.g. Indonesia).
3. Unless "country" is interpreted in the context of a locale - it is not a
matter of style, but rather an aspect of the semantics, the contents, of the
text. As such, this attribute should not be prefixed by "style:", and not be
part of styles.
Highly related to 151290, but of course of much less significance.
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